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Harlowbury Primary School Site, Gilden Way, Harlow

CC/HLW/33/25Full Planning Application CCApproved
Full

Approved on 9 July 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Erection of a new Early Years Facility with associated hard and soft play space, landscaping, car and cycle parking, and other infrastructure

Received
16 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Harlow North ED
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated17 Apr
  3. Consult.21 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Jul

Decided in 83 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Harlowbury Primary School Site, Gilden Way, Harlow. Essex has handled 82 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 7 weeks longer than Essex's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Harlow North ED.

96% of full applications at Essex County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Full Planning Application CC
Scale / size
Small
District
Harlow District

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 April 2025
Consultation expiry
21 May 2025
Consultation start
10 June 2025
Consultation end
21 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Coval Hall Rainsford Road Chelmsford CM1 2QF

Additional information

Documents
65

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Article 4 direction: HMO - townwide
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    14 Jan

    Details pursuant to Non Material Amendment 1 - Proposed External Materials of planning application…

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentCC/HLW/33/25/NMA1
  2. 2025
    16 Apr

    Erection of a new Early Years Facility with associated hard and soft play space, landscaping, car and cycle…

    This applicationApprovedFullCC/HLW/33/25

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